A series of videos, Designing for WordPress, that walks you through all steps of creating a theme.
Category Archives: Asides
Free Jon Miller
BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller! — Kara Swisher.
Free Software Usability
Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The other Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)
Interference Robustness?
What is Interference Robustness? In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.
Plugin Competition
Using WordPress as a CMS
Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS. Would love to see more articles like this.
ALA Survey
Cuil
I like Cuil. There’s just something very intuitive about the interface that fels comfortable to me, but I’m not sure how to articulate it. And it’s fast! Going to try it out as my default search engine for the next few days. Downside? Sometimes the images seem completely random, and I do see some spam in the index.
Beyond REST? XMPP
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP. Pretty fascinating stuff.
WordCamp Signup Open
WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Signup. Signup is now open for WordCamp SF, and it’s $5 cheaper than last year even though we’re at a bigger venue (with more comfortable seats, based on your feedback) and should be packing more awesomeness. Who’s going to be speaking on what? Well that’s still a surprise. 🙂
WordPress Geniuses
Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?. Lloyd is organizing a “Genius bar” at WordCamp San Francisco of volunteers to help everybody with their WP problems. I love it!
Caloric Restriction Pill
WordPress for iPhone!
WordPress for iPhone Available Now. :)! Reviews coming in: WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late.
Favorite Women Bloggers?
In SF Chronicle
There’s an article about me in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Chris Cadelago. It’s a good mainstream summary of what’s been going on the past few years. Chris talked to almost everyone I know, including getting Toni’s opinion of my car. You can, of course, get a paper copy in SF today.
Dr. Horrible
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a project from Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris.
2.6 and Cookies
WordPress 2.6 is out and it’s a really solid release, so check it out. Ryan has a good post on SSL and Cookies in WP 2.6. My congrats go out to the whole team for putting together the release, ahead of schedule! Update: Joseph has some info on XML-RPC and Atom changes.
Transition to Electric
Our Electric Future?, by Andy Grove formerly of Intel.
Pimping Firefox
Tim Ferriss writes Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More). Includes my 5 favorite extensions.
iPhone-native WordPress Client
We’re doing an iPhone-native WordPress client, check out the screencast here. It will work for both .com and .org, be available FREE from the App Store, and best of all it’s going to be completely Open Source, which
as far as I know no current apps in the store are. Update: Good news, sounds like there will be at least a few OS apps in the store on opening days.